Contactless payments have become the default way many of us pay—tap a card, tap a phone, and you’re done. But ...

U.S. Department of Interior selects Philips' advanced contactless smart card chip technology to heighten secure access to national facilities U.S. Department of Interior selects Philips' advanced ...

Wincor Nixdorf and HID Global, a provider of secure identity systems, have introduced an ATM system with a contactless smart card reader, allowing a single piece of equipment to process ATM and ...

Tap-to-pay scams target contactless cards in crowded spaces using hidden readers, but mobile wallets with biometric locks offer stronger protection.

This month, the deadline arrives for government agencies to begin issuing interoperable smart cards to all government employees and contractors. In the past months, agencies have worked to meet the ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NFC Forum has today announced the publication of its bi-annual Near Field Communication (NFC) Usage and Adoption Study. The study, conducted by ABI Research highlights the ...

Lock maker Assa Abloy and On Track Innovations (OTI) have each purchased companies they hope will strengthen their capacity to serve the market for smart cards. Assa Abloy’s Identification Technology ...

IRVINE, Calif. -- HID Corporation, the premier manufacturer of contactless access control cards and readers for the security industry, today announced the expansion of its iCLASS® 13.56 MHz ...

Amalgamated Banks of South Africa Ltd. is partnering with card-technology provider Oberthur Technologies to issue a prepaid card supported by MasterCard’s PayPass contactless service. The card is the ...

• 450 million contactless cards delivered by Smart Payment Association (SPA) members in 2013 – twice the quantity that was shipped in 2012 • 37% of all payment cards shipped to issuers worldwide in ...

In the late 1800s a German physicist named Heinrich Hertz created radio waves in the laboratory. A century later, we are still expanding upon Hertz’s discovery. Radio waves make possible all wireless ...